Try not be anonymous; makes it easier to ridicule you. Anyone who posts a comment that obviates content just to namecall is has a bit of the asshole...
Everything Spindler tried to do was too little too late. He was faced with a hostile, arrogant, and oppositional work force that was so caught up in the culture it sabotaged all the efforts. Rebuild a working modern OS - forray into consumer devices - move to open document formats and standards - all under Spinder. Sure, Copland, Pippin, and OpenDoc failed - but if you look at the market 5 years after - what do you see?
Amazing how many fan boys and x-apple employees lurk on slashdot.
Since when does Steve care? When I bought my SE/30 for $5k, in 3 months it dropped to $3k. Steve has never cared about competitive pricing. This is the "market will bare" guy. So what is the real reason Mr. Jobs?
I don't know why anyone is surprised by this because How many people follow up on a rebate? Most people forget, and those that don't aren't usually bothered to waste the time to follow it up.
Offtopic: Personally, I will never buy a Symantec product again because the last two I bought (norton antivirus, partitionmagic) had "upgrade rebates", upon which sending in the rebates and original UPCs, I got letters back from the rebate company saying 1) I didn't supply the original UPC and 2) I didn't provide the original sales invoice (one was an electronic purchase.) Of course how can I argue; as I no longer had my UPCs... Symantec says its not their problem, its the rebate company...
Its a book of the month club, where you get the first book, and its so bad with so many loose ends but slightly interesting enough that you want to get the next book. Course to achieve enlightenment you have to read the series, and each book costs twice as much as the last one.
I know other people have shared this pain, but if you have real "real time" applications, shared memory mapped files for example, this is a great thing. POSIX memory is good.
If you think that our 3 (4/w time) dimensional universe is built on a 1 dimensional one as prescribed for behaviors of subatomic particles (including gravitons), and if you think that our 3 dimensional universe is actually not symetrical but asymetrical with interesting folds and compactions along the way, then the affect of gravity on formation and orientation of galaxies would be to flatten and orient them in a uniform direction, wouldn't it?
Take the old "stone in the pond" analogy, except lets add bubblebath to make it more interesting. The bubbles (galaxies) tend to cluster together at the surface. Some bubbles may be above or below, but for the most part, they're at the surface. Still water was more uniform orientation than where you dropped the stone. Where you are looking through the ripples, things will have differing orientation.
Not sure why there is this pervasive myth that OSS is free. First, it costs people time to develop and contribute to OSS projects. Not all OSS is successful; a lot expects that others will contribute to grow the usefulness of the software.
Then there is the configuration and maintenance cost. It costs people time to install and maintain a Linux OS loaded up with software. Support isn't always free for applications. A lot of OSS software I've seen pushes the "Here is the *tool* free, now pay us to train you, and/or make it work for you."
Call me flamebait or a troll. I just don't think piracy equates to free. A lot of people know that copying Windows (or software of choice) is theft. The problem is the perceived value of the software, and OSS has a similiar perception issue...
So the end of 60's, we had multics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics) and one of the cool things was "process memory"... To me it seems to be splitting hairs; multiple processors, actually multiple processes accross those processors, having their own and/or sharing memory.
You do not have to limit yourself to cellulase producing organisms like fungi because you can also get lignase and amylase from bacteria. The problem with any enzymatic process is that the enzymes are expensive to produce and just as awkward to reclaim. ( www.iogen.ca has received tons of federal money for this )
You do not need to put gas into a fisher-tropsch process; anything organic can be "burned but not") and recombined. The problem with fisher-tropsch process is its high temperature and pressure. Not so cheap. And you don't need to add water, as H can come from your cracking. The basic FT process is break the hydrocarbon into its CO and H form, then recombine it into any other hydrocarbon.
I knew a guy did one better- started schtupping the receiptionist (that went really well until she discovered other schtuppings and then it didn't go very well.)
Few companies care about your transcripts; they just care if you got a degree/diploma or not. No recruiter I know of requires transcripts (and I deal with a lot of them.) And don't forget; going back for a year is not a guaranty of higher grades. You could do worse, and then you've wasted time and money. The proof is in your actions... are you up on the trade? That is what will come through in interviews.
Ok, aside from the obvious "you b4st4rd" line, you're pretty damn lucky. I've been looking for a telecommute IT job for over 5 years. And I'm no slouch. Where can talent find telecommuting jobs? Are there specialized recruiters? Not even Google would let me telecommute...
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OK, I'll bite, cite your quotes...
Try not be anonymous; makes it easier to ridicule you. Anyone who posts a comment that obviates content just to namecall is has a bit of the asshole...
Everything Spindler tried to do was too little too late. He was faced with a hostile, arrogant, and oppositional work force that was so caught up in the culture it sabotaged all the efforts. Rebuild a working modern OS - forray into consumer devices - move to open document formats and standards - all under Spinder. Sure, Copland, Pippin, and OpenDoc failed - but if you look at the market 5 years after - what do you see?
Amazing how many fan boys and x-apple employees lurk on slashdot.
Heh I knew someone would point that out, but the pricing model (imho) has always been Steve's (until Spindler and the clones about 95).
Since when does Steve care? When I bought my SE/30 for $5k, in 3 months it dropped to $3k. Steve has never cared about competitive pricing. This is the "market will bare" guy. So what is the real reason Mr. Jobs?
I don't know why anyone is surprised by this because How many people follow up on a rebate? Most people forget, and those that don't aren't usually bothered to waste the time to follow it up.
Offtopic:
Personally, I will never buy a Symantec product again because the last two I bought (norton antivirus, partitionmagic) had "upgrade rebates", upon which sending in the rebates and original UPCs, I got letters back from the rebate company saying 1) I didn't supply the original UPC and 2) I didn't provide the original sales invoice (one was an electronic purchase.) Of course how can I argue; as I no longer had my UPCs... Symantec says its not their problem, its the rebate company...
Its a book of the month club, where you get the first book, and its so bad with so many loose ends but slightly interesting enough that you want to get the next book. Course to achieve enlightenment you have to read the series, and each book costs twice as much as the last one.
I know other people have shared this pain, but if you have real "real time" applications, shared memory mapped files for example, this is a great thing. POSIX memory is good.
If you think that our 3 (4 /w time) dimensional universe is built on a 1 dimensional one as prescribed for behaviors of subatomic particles (including gravitons), and if you think that our 3 dimensional universe is actually not symetrical but asymetrical with interesting folds and compactions along the way, then the affect of gravity on formation and orientation of galaxies would be to flatten and orient them in a uniform direction, wouldn't it?
Take the old "stone in the pond" analogy, except lets add bubblebath to make it more interesting. The bubbles (galaxies) tend to cluster together at the surface. Some bubbles may be above or below, but for the most part, they're at the surface. Still water was more uniform orientation than where you dropped the stone. Where you are looking through the ripples, things will have differing orientation.
Sure we know. Its called "string theory."
I know that I've always purchased a distro.
Not sure why there is this pervasive myth that OSS is free. First, it costs people time to develop and contribute to OSS projects. Not all OSS is successful; a lot expects that others will contribute to grow the usefulness of the software.
Then there is the configuration and maintenance cost. It costs people time to install and maintain a Linux OS loaded up with software. Support isn't always free for applications. A lot of OSS software I've seen pushes the "Here is the *tool* free, now pay us to train you, and/or make it work for you."
Call me flamebait or a troll. I just don't think piracy equates to free. A lot of people know that copying Windows (or software of choice) is theft. The problem is the perceived value of the software, and OSS has a similiar perception issue...
Thanks for the enlightened response.
I don't know why people think absolute zero isn't cold enough to freeze stuff.
...of warcraft? WarCraft: Sword of One Thousand Truths.
So the end of 60's, we had multics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics) and one of the cool things was "process memory"... To me it seems to be splitting hairs; multiple processors, actually multiple processes accross those processors, having their own and/or sharing memory.
It would do as well as OJ's "If I woulda killed Nicole"...
You do not have to limit yourself to cellulase producing organisms like fungi because you can also get lignase and amylase from bacteria. The problem with any enzymatic process is that the enzymes are expensive to produce and just as awkward to reclaim. ( www.iogen.ca has received tons of federal money for this )
You do not need to put gas into a fisher-tropsch process; anything organic can be "burned but not") and recombined. The problem with fisher-tropsch process is its high temperature and pressure. Not so cheap. And you don't need to add water, as H can come from your cracking. The basic FT process is break the hydrocarbon into its CO and H form, then recombine it into any other hydrocarbon.
* wave from Calgary
why not have a pyramid of profit up the distribution chain...
And no chairs were thrown in the production of this snippet.
I knew a guy did one better- started schtupping the receiptionist (that went really well until she discovered other schtuppings and then it didn't go very well.)
Because most of the Windows defectors I know have gone to OSX.
Few companies care about your transcripts; they just care if you got a degree/diploma or not. No recruiter I know of requires transcripts (and I deal with a lot of them.) And don't forget; going back for a year is not a guaranty of higher grades. You could do worse, and then you've wasted time and money. The proof is in your actions... are you up on the trade? That is what will come through in interviews.
Ok, aside from the obvious "you b4st4rd" line, you're pretty damn lucky. I've been looking for a telecommute IT job for over 5 years. And I'm no slouch. Where can talent find telecommuting jobs? Are there specialized recruiters? Not even Google would let me telecommute...
Hey, the Americans have a toehold on Cuba - its called Gitmo. And the Cubans have a toehold on the US - its called Miami.